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Topic Review (Newest First)

11-21-2015 04:20 PM

tosinaco

Find it very beautiful.

So it is you who I "copied" the supporting of my diy led fixture from. That was almost a year ago and I saw a post similar like this but in an italian forum although I don't understand italian (I hope that's you ^^). Thank you for sharing your tank and your lighting fixture.

12-26-2014 12:31 PM

haytch

fantastical

wow - beautiful job

05-19-2012 10:51 PM

DanW11

This looks outstanding, the LED lighting has definitely worked well! I'd say this is one of my favorite 'tree' scapes in a nano tank, nicely done.

05-19-2012 09:10 PM

BlackHoleVR

Ciao guys..

Another update of my nano tank. The pictures date is 19 May 2012

The pic. show clearly the rate of growth plant after pruning (1 May 2012)...

I'm very happy. I can say that the "led" experiment is successful!!

Ciao and thanks all... Christian

05-04-2012 10:14 PM

BlackHoleVR

Ciao guys,
we calculate the consumption of the led light.

The image shows the working point of an LED (extract from Cree XP-G led datasheet). Each LED is powered by a constant current of 700mA. With this current, the voltage across an LED is equal (approximately) to 3.2 Volt.

The power consumed by each LED is given by:
P = I(current) x V(voltage) = 0.7(Ampere) x 3.2(Volt) = 2.24 Watt